The Aga Khan Health Care Centre in Mwanza is one of several primary health service facilities operated by the Aga Khan Health Services in Tanzania. The centre provides a range of services including outpatient care and free maternal and child health services in collaboration with the Government.

The Aga Khan Health Care Centre in Mwanza is one of several primary health service facilities operated by the Aga Khan Health Services in Tanzania. The centre provides a range of services including outpatient care and free maternal and child health services in collaboration with the Government.

The Aga Khan Development Network has contributed to health in Tanzania since 1929, working with government to support identified gaps in needs. Today, AKDN’s health care activities in Tanzania includes employment of 1000 staff, over 430,000 outpatient visits annually, including nearly 1.2 million lab tests, 65,000 radiology investigations, and 7,000 surgeries annually across its facilities. Its nursing and midwifery programmes support strengthened health systems throughout Tanzania by upgrading nursing skills, improving the quality of health care and developing new and more professional nursing courses. Its community health programmes reach poor people, focusing on maternal and child health. In collaboration with the Government of Tanzania, it is currently expanding its integrated health network to double the number of beneficiaries of its programmes.

The Aga Khan Health Services, Tanzania (AKHS,T) has an established history of over 85 years offering health care in Tanzania. AKHS built its first dispensary, providing free medical services in Dar es Salaam in 1929. In 1939, a 10-bed maternity home was opened, and ten years hence, in 1948, a nursing home equipped with surgical facilities and 32 inpatient beds was built. The main hospital, now a 74- bed facility, was opened in 1964.

Five Primary Medical Centres, located in Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro, and Mwanza were also created. Over the last few years, eight outreach health centres have opened in Arusha, Mbezi Beach, Town Centre, Tandika, Mbagala, Masaki and Mikocheni, in Dar es Salaam, and Buzuruga in Mwanza. These institutions are providing quality health care, including general and specialist medical services and state-of-the-art diagnostic services. AKHS,T works closely with the public health sector to improve access; utilization and quality of health care services. In partnership with the Government of Tanzania, select maternal and child health services are provided on a free-of-cost basis. Together with the Aga Khan University (AKU), the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam offers postgraduate medical education in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Surgery. The hospital is also an accredited internship site. AKHS employs nearly 1000 staff, attends to over 430,000 outpatient visits including nearly 1.2 million lab tests, 65,000 radiology investigations, and 7,000 surgeries annually across its facilities. In 2012, the Aga Khan Health Services initiated a US$ 83 million expansion plan for the establishment of a network of 35 outreach health centres across Tanzania and expansion of the Aga Khan Hospital to include comprehensive cardiology, oncology, and neurosciences, as well as an expansion of existing services (diagnostics, women and child health, critical care, surgery, emergency and trauma). This expansion is expected to be completed in early 2019.

The Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery programme in Dar es Salaam aims to strengthen health systems in Tanzania by upgrading nursing skills, improving the quality of health care and developing new and more professional nursing courses.

In responding to the need for health sector reform in Tanzania, the programme is tailored to ensure health services are more responsive to the needs of the people and uses an innovative curricular approach that enables nurses to obtain professional qualifications while working. Between 2005 and 2016, 295 nurses were awarded diplomas and 311 graduated with post-Registered Nurse Bachelor of Science Nursing degrees. In addition, the University trains urgently needed specialist physicians in family medicine, surgery and internal medicine through its four-year, full-time Postgraduate Medical Education programme at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam.